Today has been the first day at work where I thought ‘why the heck did I come here’. I am sure there will be other ones to come, but today was the first. I have awesome kids, awesome staff, awesome parents, awesome colleagues at the principal level. Sadly it was others who should know better that got me on the verge of swearing down the phone.

But enough of my whining 😂. I managed to get all of these done in the red now. What I am considering is redoing some of the white between the orange and red and then blending in some yellow to make a bigger contrast. I think it is going to be the case that I put a dark row of spines and at least some of the top scales in the same colour. That way it isn’t just a big lump of red on the table.

Hopefully tomorrow night I will get cracked on. Technically I am home a bit earlier than normal, so it should allow me to have a bit more time to get more done.

Having just looked at the big Beasty then I think I might go down the same route with the claws on these. Go dark rather than bone colour. Once again I will give it a go and see what I think. The nice thing about Contrast paint is that it is automatically thinned, you can’t put too thick a layer on them.

Typically, with this army, I have found out two things… firstly I am only the third person in the club who plays Age of Sigmar (not that I have started yet) and secondly the battle tome for these is to be updated sometime soon -ish. So there is no way that I am going to fork out a widget of cash on a book only to find that 6 months down the line that what I have built will be pointless. Big problem is… I don’t know how best to equip/build them. Not that I am a Beardy player. But some idea would help.

On the upside, I am enjoying painting them!

Tonight I managed to throw some paint onto these, well when I say paint on these, best described as orange on these and red on one.

The orange looked fine until I added the orange. I might redo it as yellow to brighten them up a bit. The one thing I am thinking of is to add black scales and spikes onto them to add a contrast. If the worst happens and I don’t like them then they/it can have a respray.

Tomorrow I hope to crack on with these and get them all red at the very least.

I eventually managed to get these sprayed this evening. They are now sitting on the stove drying off a bit…

I am not quite sure what colour to do the mounts but I am thinking red. I know the box art shows them as green, but I reckon red with a yellow belly will be the way forward. If I do a different shade of red to the shields then that might help. I will have to have a good old think. Either that or do the shields a colour other than red! Green for example 🤔. Hopefully I can get something done tomorrow night, but as it is the parent council meeting I probably won’t get in until gone 21.00.